Long-Lost Drawing May Be a Previously Unknown Manet
A drawing that has spent decades in an Italian collection is now believed to be a previously unknown work by Édouard Manet.The small red-chalk study shows a child crouching on the ground, according to The Guardian, which first reported the discovery. Francesco Baccanelli, an Italian art historian who encountered the work in a private collection in northern Italy, told the outlet he became interested after noticing that its mount carried an old attribution to Manet. He subsequently brought